I like Jackie Chan. His acrobatic action scenes are always amazing and entertaining. Unfortunately, Chan’s fight scenes are not enough to save “The Spy Next Door.” Poor directing and an equally weak script make for a pretty awful movie, even on a rainy afternoon. Usually children in a film increase the cute factor, but not so here and I have to blame director Brian Levant. He manages to make the children more annoying than they’re supposed to be and Magnus Scheving and Katherine Boecher do a miserable job of imitating the Boris-and-Natasha villains. Even George Lopez as his grinning CIA boss isn’t funny. And whose idea was it to cast Billy Ray Cyrus as a spy? Chan’ s comedic gifts and nimble moves are wasted in “the Spy Next Door.” Hopefully, his upcoming “The Karate Kid” remake with Jaden Smith will be better. 1/19/10
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